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WTF: Louisiana Governor Calls for More Offshore Drilling

Photo via Freedom Blogging Say what? As millions of gallons of oil spew out of the Gulf , and much of it threatening to make landfall on his state, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has called for … more offshore drilling. Citing “concerns for the economic impact” of discontinuing drilling, he wrote a letter to Obama asking the president to lift the newly imposed moratorium. Yes, you read that correctly: the man in charge of Louisiana, the state likely to be most devastated b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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WTF: Louisiana Governor Calls for More Offshore Drilling

Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?

Image credit: Leilani Münter/YouTube This post originally appeared on Huffington Post . After spending a week in Venice, Louisiana getting an up close view of the BP gulf coast oil spill disaster, talking with locals whose livelihoods are over, and seeing dead wildlife, I am trying my best to look at the positive side. Keep in mind that I just got off the phone with one of my boat captains in Louisiana and he told me he saw six dead dolphins and ten dead turtles in the past few days. So the idea of looking on “the brigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?